List of Plates. (Pictures and discreptions taken from the Offical 1944 Web Equipment Manual) 

I. The equipment-unassembled.

II. The euipment assembled-inside view and waterbottle. (The waterbottle is of aluminium with screw stopper and alumimium cup on the base;  the bottle has a capacity of one quart and the cup one pint).

III. Haversack with shoulder straps.

IV. Showing operation of quick- release buckle.

V. Left basic pouch showing double quick-release fastening and alternative method of carring bayonet.

VI. Front view.

VII. Rear view without haversack.

VIII. Left side showing bayonet on basic pouch, machete in sheath and lightened pick attached to haversack.

IX. Right side showing rifle slung and position of waterbottle. (The sling is held under shoulder tab and the rifle secured to the belt by a strap, allowing free use of the arm).

X. Rear view showing method of carriage of the bedding roll under the haversack, and lightened shovel.

XI. Rear view showing the bedding roll strapped around the haversack, also lightened shovel with a web cover.

XII. Showing clearence between helmet and shovel blade when in the prone position.

XIII. Rucksack with closing flap raised to show kit-bag type fastening of main compartment.

XIV. Rucksack carried with the equipment.

XV. Man-pack carrier G.S. worn over the equipment.

XVI. Rucksack attached to the man-pack carrier G.S. worn over the equipment.

XVII. Equipment assembled for officers.

XVIII. Front view of the equipment for officers, certian Warrant Officers, N.C.Os and specialists.

XIX. Alternative position of articles in front.

XX. Equipment for those armed with a pistol only.

XXI. Equipment for non-combatant units.

XXII. Showing the basic pouch for M.T. drivers.

NOTE.-Plates VIII., XI., and XII. showing carridge of the respirator haversack.  This can be carried in a variety of other positions.

         

    



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